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There’s a lot of talk about Personal values and Belief on the internet. People need to know how to establish themselves in life, how to be something.

Values are very much related to understanding. How you look at the world and how you deal with the world on a daily basis.

If you believe in a dogma or ideology, and you don’t spend time thinking about it, trying to understand it, then you will have a conflict with your values.

Why?

Your values are the ideas that reoccur when you come into conflict with something like a circumstance or another person who tries to coerce you or force you to do things that you don’t believe in. Your believe in a dogma or ideology, like a flag and demand that you stand firm in your beliefs and defend your values.

We all want to experience new things. So, when we come across a new situation that offers something that may help us or increase our well being, either with security or money, we take it seriously.

We will investigate it and make decisions about its value to us.

It may be something that other people don’t think of as being worthwhile. It may be a rare idea or something off the beaten track, but it’s up to you to decide. If it’s new and you take it on board, try it out, and discover that it fits well into your life then you’ve found something that already relates to your present values.

If you realise it’s the missing part in your search for a better life and it means an enormous change that requires strength of mind and persistent effort until it becomes a natural element in your life, then it’s a new value that you are developing.

Sure, it’s a new everything. New activity, new feelings and new orientation in life. But that’s okay, it’s of value to you.

The key to making it successfully through change of values – or even beliefs, is to be able to use all of your resources to stay the course. Not to flag and a fall at the wayside halfway. That would be a shame to allow it to happen.

The biggest reason for failure in anything is lack of effort. Half hearted attempts and throwing the towel in too early are common – probably about 95% of the population try something new each year, especially after january the 1st, then they quit within weeks of starting. It could’ve lead to a better life, or a more meaningful existence.

Changing values happens when people understand something more deeply than they did before.

You can’t know something,believe it’s useful in your life and then discover that your thinking is faulty but continue to follow the idea anyway. Only a moron defies the logic of understanding through his or her incompetence.

Some people seem stubborn and never change – I think it’s simply that they never learned to think about their actions. Then, other people who live lives of action without thought encounter an event in life that throws them from the rock face and they fall into the valley. They wake up, hopefully, with a new perspective on life. Change can create new thought, new thought processes demand reorganisation of the belief and values system in ourselves.

People change all of the time, most often from hard to easy. From tough stuff to comfort stuff. They stunt their growth as human beings by avoiding the hard things in life, facing up to themselves and understanding that they don’t know it all, to know that so long as we are alive and living amongst others we have an opportunity to learn and improve our ability to be better at what we do. To be real humans.

Change causes change of values. Your outlook changes often if you are genuinely interested in the world. You can’t live a life without effort, without working on things such as your opinions and your ideals.

What was good at 18 years old will seem shallow at 30 years old. Try it, listen to the music that you loved at 18 years old – sure some of it will be classic, great and never-forgettable, but most of it will be a baffling experience of “why did I like that music?”. The brain grows and the mind develops, we change and so do our values.

To have Self-Knowledge is an empowered way of living. To know yourself, is to know who you are, what your values are and exactly what you believe in.

Just to have this knowledge in your daily life, is enough to ensure that you will be successful at anything you set out to do.

A person who knows themself doesn’t waste time pursuing activities that don’t fit their own beliefs and values.

How do we discover who we are?

That’s a big question, and sometimes, people spend a lifetime asking it and trying to find out who they are.

I have been using a form of note taking to sum up my feelings and thoughts for many years. I call it my notes, others call it Journalling. In either case, the name is unimportant, the activity of writing down what you really feel about yourself and your life, is of great value.

Think about it, only you can write down what you feel, and think about any action or experience in the world.

I say this because many people, too many, keep looking outwards for help about their own problems. I think it’s because of the belief that we are all the same, people are pursuing the same things in life, and that logic tells us that if you find another person who is successful in life, you can emulate them, or even copy their actions and also become successful.

I’m all for emulation of the skills, but the person is not you. To copy their style, their way of doing things, is a mistake which leads to frustrations.

You have to know yourself to guide yourself through the complex issues of life.

Finding a great Mindset, a great idea for business or how to be successful in any activity is all about you and your deeper self.

Self Knowledge has always been the way to success. Don’t underestimate the power of it.

Journalling is writing. Writing is an action between mind and body. It is not a passive activity – as some people might believe.

When you decide to try writing down what you feel about what you want in life, you begin to reveal thoughts and ideas that you didn’t know you had before.

The action of writing is very different to simply thinking about something. Your mind becomes very focused during the time you write.

I suppose it doesn’t matter if you use a pen and paper, or a computer to journal. Some people use voice, although I imagine that speaking your thoughts can lead to waffling a lot before you reach anything of interest – a bit like being in therapy where you talk, and talk, and then peel back the layers of your mind bit by bit.

If you begin a journal, begin it with an intention. Something of value to you. To discover if you are really on the right track in work, or life, or to discover what you really want out of life.

Writing how you feel about money and business is a powerful eye-opener for most people. It’s the way to clear your feelings about your views of money. Many of us were brought up with some pretty odd ideas about what money is.

Think of it, when you were a kid and listened to adults arguing about money, telling others that money causes problems, that money is the root of evil … all the bad stuff about money that people blurt out, all of these things are emotional lies. People need to blame something for their failings. Money doesn’t fight back, it just stays away from people who don’t like it.

If you look at money in a logical way, you will have to admit that it’s a pretty handy thing to have, actually.

Telling yourself that you don’t need money, or that you think money corrupts people’s thinking, is just another way of shirking responsibility. Are you so weak that having a good income would corrupt you?

By writing what you feel and think about money will reveal a few facts about how you value money and possessions.

Healthy thinking would reveal that you know that money is a good thing; it pays the damn bills, and it allows you to make choices in life that are otherwise out of reach. Why not get some, and why not want a large income?

We live in an economic system that allows us to participate in business. If you are a freelancer, or have a small business, you are in business. You are one of the new entrepreneurs of the 21st Century. Don’t create conflict in your mind by denying that you’re in it for money.

It depends what you want to do with money that makes all the difference. Don’t you think?

Imagine yourself in a situation where you know so much about yourself that you feel sure and confident about the work you do, you feel that when you develop an idea for business or decide what to do in life, you are very confident about the tasks involved.

To experience a life where self-confidence and self-empowerment are always present, is to be a person who has delved deeply into their own thoughts and feelings. Writing into your journal each morning, being very honest with yourself and presenting yourself with powerful questions will take you into a mental state that allows you to see what you are and where you are going more clearly.

Asking questions that you have always avoided is a brave thing to do. It takes guts to be honest with yourself. Most people like to live in comfort zones, to avoid conflict and just get on with the same old routine as yesterday. They will never move forwards, or make shift in consciousness that will reveal to them how much opportunity is in their lives.

You can change the things that are holding you back by starting a journal or notebook about yourself.

The journal is a very selfish act. It doesn’t include others, really. It’s all about you, and all about what you want and discovering exactly what is standing in your way.

Get past the odd feeling of being selfish, or that feeling that says you don’t have time to do things – like spending twenty minutes writing about the most important person in your life, you.

After a couple of days, or maybe a week, you will begin to see the value of notebooks. It will cause you to realise which feelings are fantasies, which feelings and thoughts are realistic and which ideas you have need to be fleshed out. It’ll give you perspective like you can’t get by just meandering over ideas on the bus or train.

I thoroughly recommend that you give it a try and hopefully, after a few days you’ll come back here and leave a few comments on your experiences as a mindshift journal writer.

Use a pen and paper or your computer

Stay human – don’t procrastinate by searching for Apps and things to help you. It’s all about you.

Write each day.

Write in the morning immediately after waking or before bed at night.

Ask yourself deep questions about why, how, what and when then answer them with brutal honesty. Nobody else reads your journal.

Getting Things Done

“Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.” James Altucher

You have Goals. Work goals, money Goals,write that novel Goals, build physical strength or just get fit and stay fit Goals? — passion goals.

The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

When we look at the quote above, we see that the main words of expression are “Drive” and “Persistence”

The words winning and success are just words that we use to describe that certain something that makes us feel the passion for our goals. And quite often those feelings tend to last a few hours, if we’re lucky, and then dwindle away.

How can you keep the feeling of Drive locked-in to your brain so that the reality of persistence becomes a part of your daily life?

Success means many things to different people; for some it means money — that’s the Hollywood version of success, but if you want permanence in the state of success that you reach, then success should mean something deeper and more profound to you.

Feel it and Enjoy

It should be something you feel — before you can even say you have achieved it. It should be a persistent feeling that rises up to greet you every morning when you wake. With that type of feeling, a permanent emotion, that drives you on you can only win and be successful at what you do.

Success, the Carrot and Stick

A big problem with the world of success and achievement is that everybody’s talking about the goal. You set your goal and you drive forwards to the end result. The drive, the journey towards the goal is the success factor, really.

Wrong and Right Thinking

It’s wrong thinking when we constantly think of the state of success as a pile of cash, or a finished novel. We need to focus on the journey because when you become successful at achieving the goal you won’t want to stop and stare.You will know that it’s just a stepping stone in being persistent in the action of success. Success is a journey of actions, not a static goal. There is no finish line that says stop and put your feet up , it’s done!

The Path of Energy and Drive

Building a path to your goal is a daily adventure that requires energy and drive; you prove to yourself everyday that you have both of these when you accomplish all those little tasks that keep you alive and bubbling through the day — sure some days are not so bubbly. But, you have persistence and Drive.

Focus and Your Journey

When we focus on the journey and forget the end of the journey we immediately discover that we have released pent up energy that was being used to think about the end result. The end result is always here and now, with us, it exists in our actions and thoughts as an expression of labour and passionate application to an activity that inspires us.

Fear and Faith

If you focus on the end goal you will always have an element of fear in your heart; the mind is your tool — for good or bad. It will always have the ability to express fear and that’s okay.

Don’t allow Fear to Block You

Fear blocks us; the faith needed to push forwards when more drive is needed comes from belief in self, not belief in some vague idea of success in the future. Drive comes from already having set the goal and knowing that the actions required to achieve the tasks involved will be worth it. Drive is the result of clear focus releasing energy to realise a result that will improve life; a novel, a business venture or just getting into shape again at the gym. This leads to the faith in oneself that is needed to keep going.

Be in the Now and Enjoy Life

Forget the past, forget the future, focus on the now, the present goal of being in action and applying yourself to your passion and you will end the day with an enormous sense of achievement and success.

Success is a word that means a lot to people. It has many different meanings and that always depends on what you define as success. Your values are directly connected to your beliefs, your beliefs are like the sail that catches the wind and steers your ship to success.

Without having a deeper knowledge of what you value in life, you will have a tough time traversing the waves that batter your bows.